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Unit 143 Board
Meeting Rev 1
October
22, 2008
President
John Samsel called the meeting to order at 7:00 PM. Present
were Board members Bob Janis, Bob Wheeler, Sheryl Finkenstadt,
Steve Zenk, Jane Ettelson, Suzi Shymanski-Moore, Ed Hale,
Mark Ludwig, Debbie Romero, Sasanka Ramanadham, Sandy Bigg
and Donna Pedrotti. Absent was Board member Carl Clyne. Also
present was Mike Carmen.
September
Minutes
The
September minutes were approved.
Corresponding
Secretary's Report
The
Unit 143 data base will be updated with the ACBL In/Out Report
dated 10/1/2008.
The
2008 POTY report will be updated to include results of the
Oct. 3rd Unit Game and the October Sectional Tournament. The
report will be e-mailed to Milt Zlatic and Sheryl Finkenstadt.
A
list of new Life Masters was prepared for John Samsel. They
were awarded their LM pins at the October Sectional Tournament.
Treasurer's
Report
Bob
Janis provided a copy of the Unit 143 balance sheet as of
September 30, 2008. This showed a balance of $10,540 in the
checking account. The unit has $38,947 in current assets.
The report shows a profit of $1,203 for the months of October
2007 thru September 2008. The 2007/2008 budget had projected
a profit of $5539.
Bob
also provided a copy of the 2008/2009 budget. The budget projects
a profit of $927 for the next fiscal year. The Unit 143 Board
approved the budget.
STANDING
COMMITTEES
A.
Awards/Nominating/Club Liaison
Donna
Pedrotti will order nameplates for the new Board members.
Donna will give LM pins to the new Life Masters who were not
present at the Saturday evening at the Sectional tournament.
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- Charity/Hospitality/Caddies
Suzi
Shymanski-Moore reported that $909 was donated to the Back
Stoppers organization
- Education
No
report
D.
Membership
Steve
Zenk reported a net loss of 10 members. Our membership count
stands at 1071.
E.
Website
Sheryl
Finkenstadt reported there were13000+ hits in September on
the Unit 143 web site pages. She says the number of hits per
month is stable.
- Publicity
Sasanka
Ramanadham has prepared a description of how he performs his
duties in Publicity and for the Braggin Rights matches. He
also has list on contacts in other units to sent fliers for
our tournaments for his successor. Sasanka will e-mail the
information to his successor.
Sasanka
recommended that we host a youth and Easy bridge session at
the May 2009 -Sectional tournament similar to 2008 May Sectional
tournament. This tournament was a qualifying session for the
National Youth Tournament. Last year's event was well received
by the players. Chris Shaw is the contact person for the young
players.
- NAP/GNT
Ed
Hale reported that he has collected the names of the NAP qualifiers
from the Game Results pages on the unit web site. Post cards
have been prepared and will be sent to the qualifiers. Ed
Hale completed the post cards for the NAP qualifiers. He reported
that there were a total of 38 qualifying games. Ed had some
difficulty obtaining addresses for all the qualifiers. In
order to save on postage, Ed gave the post cards to some players
he knew who were at the October Sectional Tournament. Ed will
mail the rest of the post cards to the qualifiers.
- 199er Tournament
Jane
Ettelson reported that September 199er had a total count of
56.5 tables.
There
were 31 tables for the AM session and 25.5 tables for the
PM session. The net profit for the unit was $1.99. The profit
for the March 199er Tournament was $205.40. The decrease in
profit was due primarily to an increase in director fees.
- Recording
Secretary/Bidding Boxes
No
report
- Vice President
No
Report.
- Tournament
Chairman
Mike
Carman said that the October Sectional tournament made about
$1,355. The budget had projected a gain of $320. Mike indicated
that the table count was up almost 40 tables from last year's
tournament. Mike recommended that we continue to send post
cards advertising the events. The board held discussion on
using bulk mailing rates for these post cards. He also recommended
that we move the starting time for the Saturday morning back
to 9:00 AM to allow the directors more time to prepare for
the Saturday afternoon session. No action was taken.
Mike
reported from the District meeting in Fort Wayne. ACBL has
sold their building in Memphis and is deciding whether to
build or buy a new building. The STAC week is scheduled for
Oct 27 thru Nov 2. The NAP is scheduled for the weekend of
Nov 8/9. Mike also talked about the handicapping of teams
in the top bracket of the KO events.
New
Business
John
Samsel recommended that the new Board consider replacing
the Disciplinarian because of inaction concerning a problem
event.
Old
Business
The
Board counted the votes from the election held during the
Fall Sectional Tournament. The winners were Jackie Baker,
Carole Benkelman, Bob Janis and Bobby Riggs
Meeting
Adjourned at 8:54 PM
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